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Plain-language foundations, primers and guides on integrated marketing communications, with a source for every claim. New here? Begin with the short reads below.
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The checks that keep a launch from failing at the joins: objectives and briefs, claims and codes, consent and accessibility, product and service readiness before launch; synchronised go-live and monitoring during it; and a measured review after it.
A matrix of the activities in an integrated programme against the people and agencies involved, marking for each who does the work, who signs it off, who is consulted and who is kept informed. A general project-management practice, defined in PMI's lexicon, applied to marketing teams and agencies.
One timeline that shows every discipline phase by phase: when each is off, light or heavy, the phases of the campaign, the fixed dates it must respect and the dependencies between teams. With the scheduling patterns of media planning: continuity, flighting and pulsing.
A canvas that links the organisation's objective to the communication objectives, then to inputs, activity, outputs, out-takes, outcomes and impact, with a metric, baseline, target and source for each. After AMEC's Integrated Evaluation Framework and the Barcelona Principles.